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The Alphatronic PC (also spelled alphaTronic PC) is a mix of home computer and business computer, which was mainly sold in Germany. Triumph-Adler has come from …
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The Amstrad GX4000 is a modified Amstrad CPC 6128+. Internally, mainly the layout of the board was changed to fit into the housing, externally missing the …
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The CPC6128 is a popular Amstrad computer, sold in Germany by Schneider, that replaced the CPC664. Like its predecessor, it has a built-in 3-inch floppy disk …
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The Lynx from British manufacturer Camputers reached the market in early 1983, with 48, 96 or 128 KB RAM priced at £225, £299 and £345, considerably more than …
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Toy manufacturer Coleco has already produced pong clones, but will only publish its module-based console at a time when the market is already divided. But the …
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The company EACA from Hong Kong builds computers from 1975 to 1983, such as Apple II clones and computers based on Tandy's TRS-80. The latter appear as Video …
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There are two versions of Enterprise: Enterprise 64 with 64 KiB RAM (of which 50 KiB are available) and a short time later the Enterprise 128 (128 KiB RAM) …
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Engineer Richard Altwasser and software developer Steven Vickers played major roles in developing the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. After completing it, they founded …
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The KOMTEK-1 is a rare clone of Tandy's TRS-80 Model I. Like the original, it uses a Z80 processor and includes Level II BASIC. It has 16 KB RAM and 12 to 16 …
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The Aquarius is the home computer from Mattel Electronics, manufacturer of the Intellivision console. It was developed and built by Radofin in Hong Kong …
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The British company Memotech -- after first producing hardware extensions for Sinclair computers -- developed exactly one home computer: the MTX. It is …
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The Nascom 2 is a British single-board kit computer, introduced in December 1979 for £295 plus VAT. Its Z80A can be switched between 2 and 4 MHz. The board …
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The Philips VG-8010 is an 8-bit home computer and offers 2 module spaces, a moderate keyboard and strangely arranged cursor keys but no built-in datasette. The …
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The Philips VG-8235 is a computer according to the MSX2 specification. The Dutch company explicitly advertised its graphics capabilities and with a video …
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The Schneider CPC464 (CPC for Colour Personal Computer) is the German version of the Amstrad CPC464 with minimal adaptation for the German market (shielding) …
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The Game Gear is a portable game console from Sega and was positioned directly against the Nintendo Game Boy (Classic). However, he could hardly gain market …
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The Sega Nomad is the portable version of Mega Drive/Sega Genesis. The Nomad appears officially only in the USA and was not distributed to other countries, as …
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The Master System is the version of the Sega Mark III produced for the West. The exterior, like Nintendo's NES, has been changed for the western market, but …
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The Sharp MZ-700 series stands for a group of Japanese computers that differ in the built-in periphery (printer yes/no, datasette yes/no). The MZ-731 (twice …
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In 1982 the British company Sinclair Research Ltd. introduced the Sinclair ZX Spectrum as a successor to the Sinclair ZX81. Like its predecessor, it is based …
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After buying the Sinclair computer division and the Sinclair brand in 1986, the ZX Spectrum +2 is the first machine under the Amstrad brand; it came directly …
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Since the ZX Spectrum 128 from Sinclair has a ZX Spectrum+ on the housing, this leads to amazement at the first moment. But the second label 128K makes it …
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In 1980, the British company Sinclair Research launched the ZX80 for under $200. A year later, the new and improved version ZX81 will be released for half the …
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SNK designs the Neo Geo as a game hall hardware that allows exhibitors to exchange games without having to buy a new cabinet each time. In parallel, you offer …
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The M5 from Japan's Sord Computer Corporation appeared in Japan in November 1982. Computer Games Limited sold it in Britain as the CGL M5. It has a 3.58 MHz …
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The SVI-328 MKII from Spectravideo International Ltd. is an American home computer from 1984. Visually compared to the predecessor, the Spectravideo SVI-328 …
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The SVI-728 sold by the American company Spectravideo (1988) is the successor of the SV-328, and irons out some flaws, making the SVI-728 the first …
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The TRS-80 is one of the first home computers. The Z80 processor gives the computer its name: TRS-80 = Tandy Radio Shack - Z80. The American electronics …
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In July 1980, Tandy replaced the TRS-80 Model I with the Model III. New FCC radio-interference rules taking effect in 1981 prompted the change, as the Model I …
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Taiwanese company Tatung had the Einstein (TC-01) home computer developed and built in England in 1984. It has a 4 MHz Z80A, 64 KB RAM and a built-in 3-inch …
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The Vtech Laser 100 and Vtech Laser 110 are the first home computers of Hong Kong based company Video Technology Ltd. It was also known in Germany as Sanyo …
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The company VTech (abbreviation for Video Technology Ltd.) from Hong Kong developed the Laser 200 as a successor to Laser 100/110. It was sold by different …
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VTech (abbreviation for Video Technology Ltd.) is an electronics company from Hong Kong that sold Laser computers across different store chains in other …
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The Yamaha Music Computer CX5M has been explicitly designed as a music computer and the sound possibilities with an 8-voice FM synthesizer can be heard. Three …
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After the Spectrum got competition with home computers like the C64, Sinclair gave the ZX Spectrum 48K a better keyboard (like the QL) and introduced the ZX …
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